Most of my modelling time which is in total about more than 22 years I built wwi stuff. Even as a child I built every Airfix, Esci and Revell biplane I got my hands on and left every ww2 plane on the shop's shelf for them. When I started modelling again about 16 years ago in earnest I built almost exclusively wwi planes, tanks and dioramas first in 1:72 and 1/144, then in 1:48 and finally I switched to 1:32, WNW was mainly but not exclusively responsible for that.
I love modelling the history of WWI and am mainly interested in important aircraft -- "important" in the sense of the importance of a certain airplane for the air war of 1914/18. I am not so deep in building the machines of aces, but machines which were representative for a certain aera or battle. So a Fokker Eindecker and an early Nieuport are representative for the battle of Verdun 1916 for example. Given this and regarding the fact that so many important airplanes are not released in kitform yet (let's name Voisins, Farmans, Aviatiks, LVG C II, Halberstadts, Caudrons, and so on) I deeply regret that such an unimportant footnote of the airwar like the Junkers D. I is released as a high quality kit. It might be interesting from a technical point of view. But it's definitely not representative for what happened in the skies in the Great War.
I have every land based airplane released by WNW in my stash, some more than once. But I am neither interested in their Seaplanes nor in the Junkers D I.
The kit itself looks attractive for me and it is surely another hig end kit. Therefore I had rather seen a Voisin VIII or something else kitted in that way. I don't think I'll spend my money on the Junkers D. I. It's not even a real Great War plane in my opinion. Only that steampunk think sounds interesting for me...
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